When we talk about Amish furniture, some of us think old fashioned, traditional, even perhaps bulky. Not so! Amish furniture, though still using old fashioned tool and techniques to build the highest quality furniture, has kept pace with the times and offers more contemporary options than most people would imagine. So if you want a sleek and streamlined, contemporary look for your dining room and are wondering what kind of contemporary dining room chair or table to get, consider going with Amish designs; you may well be surprised!
The Amish offer many options among contemporary chairs; particularly dining chairs. You don’t have to go for the big old traditional looking arm chairs which look like (and probably were) designed a hundred years ago. Consider the Bradbury dining room chairs, which come only in the side chair styles. They don’t have arm rests, have a streamlined, no frills, space saving design, with uncluttered, clean lines that please the eye.
The Escalon chair is another example of the contemporary chair handcrafted by the talented Amish craftsmen. This is much like the modern ladder back chair. It has horizontal slats and bowed legs and comes is two options: as a side chair without arm rests or as a head of the table chair, with arm rests. For the complete contemporary look, these dining room chairs can be paired with a dining table of the Caledonia style or the Brady style to achieve the modern yet timeless look that you may be aiming for. Another contemporary dining chair option from the Amish could be the Cascade chair, which is built with a unique curve to the chair back. This is a design style that is great not only for its elegant good looks, but also offers excellent seating support to the back and is great also in terms of actual seating comfort.
